Windows Azure Storage Overview

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A key component of any cloud computing offering is durable storage. Windows Azure provides 3 forms of durable storage: tables, blobs, and queues. Join me as we explore the highlights of these 3 important implementations.

@jigneshpandya - In general, you don't set limits. That is, you have some limits like 100TB of total storage (blobs, tables, queues) per storage account (up to 5 accounts by default). Are you asking something else?

I just viewed the video on concurrency, and I was puzzled by the "golden ticket" approach to avoiding concurrency issues. If obtaining the golden ticket from the golden ticket queue is a requirement to process the messages in the request queue, then what
is the point of having multiple instances of the worker role other than for fault tolerance? It seem as though this paradigm ensures that only one worker role is processing something at any given time, so in terms of processing time for all messages in the
queue, this would be far less efficient than having just one instance of the worker role process.

The whole issue with concurrency is to make sure that only one instance is processing the work. The 'golden ticket' approach does not apply to work that can be done in parallel. You would only use that approach when you wanted to ensure that something
was done once and only once in an otherwise parallel environment. Make sense?